Improvement in feather-renovators



diluted tcte aient @time Letters Patent N 100,120, laterz February 22, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same,

-To all 'whom it may concern 13e it known that we, ABEL D. CooK and JAMES GRAVES, of New Madrid, in the county of N ew Madrid, and State of Missouri, have invented au Improved Iteat-her-Renovator; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the artto make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specifition;

Figure 1 is a detail sectional view of parts of our improved feather-renovator.

Figure 2 is a side view, partly in section, 0f the stove or furnace.

Figure 3 is a detail cross-section of the steaming or drying-cylinder.

Our invention has for its object to improve the construction of feather renovators, so as to make them more convenient and effect-ive in` use, doing the work quicker' and better; and

It consists in the construction and combination of various parts of the apparatus, as herein after more fully described.

A is a trame-work in bearings, in the standards of which revolve the ends ofthe pipe B, which serves as a shaft to support and rotate the cylinder C.

One end of the pipe B is closed, and to it is attached a crank, D, for rotating the cylinder G.

The other end of the pipe B lis open, to-receive the eonnecting-pipe from the steam-boiler or fau-blower, according as the feathers are to be steamed or dried.

The part ot' the pipe B within the cylinder C is per.- forated with numerous small holes, to allow the steam or air to escape through all parts of the feathers.

The cylinder C is made with several doors or openings, which may be tightly closed while steaming the feathers,to keep in the steam, and opened while drying the feathers, to allow the moist air to escape, and its place to be supplied by dry air while drying the feathers thoroughly in a very short time.

The interior of the cylinder C is lined with wiregauze or perforated zinc-plate E to keep the feat-hers in while the doors of the cylinder C are opened to allow the steam or air to escape.

'lhe interior cylinder E is made in sections, sliding into each other in the manner of a telescope-tube, to press the feathers together in one end of the cylinder C for convenience in removing them when renovated.

This same thing may be accomplished by making one` of the heads of ,the interior cylinder movable, so that it may be moved towards the other end to press the feathers together.

For convenience in putting in and taking out the feathers, an opening should be made in one side of the sectionsA of the interior cylinder E and in the end of the cylinder U, as shown in figs. 1 and 3.

F represents the stove or furnace upon which the boiler is heated to develop the steam for renovating the feathers.

Through the rear part of the stove or furnace F passes a pipe, G, one end of which is open, and the other endof which is connected with the fan-blower H, tosupply heated air to said tan-blower.

The rear part of the stove or furnace F, through which the pipe' G passes, isseparated from the tirechamber by a partition, I, and is provided with adamper, J, so-arranged that when adjusted in one position the heated products of combustion may pass directly to the stove-pipe, and when adjusted in another posi- -tion they will be compelled to pass around the pipe the blast of heated air without being removed from the apparatus until ready to be placed iu the tick.

Having thus described our invention,

XVe claim as new and desire to secure by Lett-ers Patent- 1. Forming'the int-crior )vire-gauze or perforated cylinder E in sections, sliding into each other telescopically,substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose set forth.

2. The eombination'of the partiti-'m I, damper J, and pipe. G, with the stove or furnace F and fanblower H of a feather-renovator, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of our invention signed by us this 2d day of August, 1869.

ABEL-D. COOK.

lVitnesses: JAMES GRAVES.

J. H. HOWARD,

S. T. DAvIs. 

